Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 85001080 Added to NRHP 16 May 1985 | Architectural style Skipjack Year built 1907 | |
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Location Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland MPS Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR Place built Hopkins, Virginia, United States | ||
The F. C. Lewis Jr. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1907 at Hopkins, Virginia. She is a 39-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.6 feet (4.5 m) and a register depth of 3 feet (0.91 m); her register tonnage is 6. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. She is located at Wenona, Somerset County, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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